7. Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson and Marshall Karp. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) When a young man finds a bag of diamonds, he gets the attention of the Ghost, a major assassin, and a rival assassin who wants the Ghost gone forever.

8. A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin. (Bantam, $35.) After a colossal battle, the Seven Kingdoms face new threats; Book 5 of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

9. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) A gifted but vulnerable ballplayer faces a crisis.

10. The Race by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. (Putnam, $27.95.) It is 1910 and the age of flying machines is still in its infancy. Detective Isaac Bell's new adventure is taking off.

NON-FICTION

1. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (Hyperion, $60.) Recordings and transcripts of a seven-part interview with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in 1964.

2. Confidence Men by Ron Suskind. (Harper/HarperCollins, $29.99.) President Barack Obama and his advisers, often at odds with one another, respond to the economic crisis.

3. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

4. The Quest by Daniel Yergin. (Penguin Press, $37.95.) How the need for energy - especially, but not only, oil - drives global political and economic change.

5. In My Time by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. (Threshold Editions, $35.)

The former vice president opens up about his life and nearly four decades at the core of American politics.

6. That Used to Be Us by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.)

How America fell behind in the world it invented, and how it can come back.

7. Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. (Doubleday, $28.95.) The life and death by assassination (and medical malpractice) of President James A. Garfield.

8. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. (Simon & Schuster, $24.99.) A woman's recollection of being kidnapped at the age of 11, spending 18 years imprisoned by a convicted rapist and his wife and bearing two daughters by him.

9. Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore. (Grand Central, $26.99.) Stories from the life of the provocative filmmaker.

10. The Rogue by Joe McGinniss. (Crown, $25.) McGinniss moved to Wasilla, Alaska, to report on the career of Sarah Palin.